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<p><strong>Former Man Utd winger also assesses Paul Scholes&#39; start at Oldham, and why fans shouldn&#39;t overreact to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer&#39;s first loss</strong></p>
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He worked with young Mark Hughes, Lee Martin and Mark Robbins who went on to play for the United first team, but obviously the youth team of 92 owe a lot to Eric Harrison because he was a mentor to all of us from very early on from the age of 13 or 14. He had a huge impact on all our careers.</div>
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I&#39;ve seen players with real ability not go on to make it, but what Eric did to get the best out of us was test us, he took us out of our comfort zone, and you never felt like you&#39;d &#39;made it&#39;.</div>
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A lot has been made of how tough he was, but he also always wanted to play great attacking football in the spirit of United. Not only did he toughen us up, but he taught us how to make the most out of the ability we had.</div>
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Another Class of &#39;92? Unlikely these days</h4>
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It&#39;s getting more and more difficult now because of the money in the game. You have young players who&#39;ve not really done a lot but can earn a decent amount of money, but you&#39;ll always get individuals who have got that something inside where it doesn&#39;t really matter what they&#39;re driving or what they&#39;re getting paid or what plaudits are coming their way</div>
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It&#39;s getting less and less likely that there will be another group of players who can come through at a club together like we did, but I&#39;m not saying it&#39;s impossible.</div>
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I think if a group of players like us back then were on a lot more money I don&#39;t think that would bother Eric, he&#39;d push us even harder.</div>
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It&#39;s a shame because Eric was tough, but he gave us a great grounding; we could do with a few more coaches like him around.</div>
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He always wanted the best for us. If you were down or injured or out of form he was always there for you to lift you up, so there was that side to him as well.</div>
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They certainly don&#39;t make a lot of coaches like Eric.</div>
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A great first win for Paul at Oldham. I remember the same thing happened to me when I won my first Wales game 6-0.</div>
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It&#39;s obviously great to get off to a good start, especially now the expectation at Oldham will be higher than usual, but Scholesy knows that and he&#39;ll be working even harder.</div>
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It was great for him and I&#39;m delighted but he&#39;s been in football long enough to not take anything for granted. That start will only make him work harder if anything.</div>
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It&#39;s been well documented that he wanted to get into management and with Oldham being local and a club he&#39;s watched regularly we were all aware of that. It was just a matter of time until it did happen.</div>
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Like everyone else, we&#39;re interested to see how he gets on and we&#39;re taking a keen interest in how he does. He&#39;s a really good football person, obviously.</div>
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But the signs have been promising so it&#39;s just a case of not getting too cocky when United were winning, but not getting too downhearted after losing to PSG. They had to lose at some point!</div>
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There are some big games coming up for the club to bounce back in; tough games against Chelsea and then Liverpool, probably the biggest game for United fans.</div>
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More twists to come in PL title race</h4>
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This is where the experienced players and the manager are really important. You&#39;ve got to forget about all the noise from the media and the fans putting pressure on and saying: &quot;If you lose a game the title race is over.&quot; There are going to be twists and turns all the way to the end of the season I think.</div>
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If you&#39;re beaten you&#39;ve got to bounce back, and if you&#39;re winning games you can&#39;t take anything for granted. It&#39;s hard, especially with social media now, but you&#39;ve got to block out the noise.</div>
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I think City&#39;s tails are up at the moment, but it can soon change. Injury-wise, City are a bit better off right now and injuries are the one thing that can kill you in a title race. You can have momentum, but if you&#39;re picking up knocks and players are missing eventually it will catch up with you.</div>
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If you&#39;re a team that more or less has a full squad gong out every week then you&#39;re in a much better place.</div>
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Winning your first title is tough</h4>
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You&#39;re overriding emotion after winning the first one wasn&#39;t celebration, it was relief, having not won it for so long to finally win one was just a relief.</div>
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For the pundits and the neutrals, they all want it to go down to the wire but as a player there&#39;s nothing better than winning it with a couple of weeks to go so you can enjoy it, because when you win it on the last day it&#39;s only after that last game you can enjoy it. Otherwise it&#39;s just sheer relief.</div>
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Salford need a run</h4>
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It&#39;s one of those runs that we&#39;ve been on since before Christmas really, we&#39;ve had a couple of good wins and then a couple of cup games that have just killed the momentum a little bit.</div>
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We definitely need to get back to winning ways because we&#39;re running out of games. At this time of the season any team that can go on a run and can grab the momentum.</div>
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We&#39;ve had a couple of injuries in midfield, but we&#39;ve made a couple of signings and we&#39;re getting players back, so hopefully we can kick on from here.</div>
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Manchester UnitedPersonalClass of '92Eric HarrisonManchester CityManchester UnitedOle Gunnar SolskjaerPaul ScholesPremier LeagueRyan GiggsSalford City FCSir Alex FergusonHeadlineFri, 15 Feb 2019 23:56:57 +0000Steven Tan2380 at http://www.ryangiggs.ccEric Harrison: Former Manchester United youth coach and Class of '92 mentor dies aged 81http://www.ryangiggs.cc/news/manchester-united/eric-harrison-former-manchester-united-youth-coach-and-class-92-mentor-dies-a
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<strong>Sir Alex Ferguson says Eric Harrison was &quot;one of the greatest coaches of our time&quot; following the death of the former Manchester United youth coach, credited with developing their &#39;Class of &#39;92&#39;.</strong></div>
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Harrison, 81, who was diagnosed with dementia four years ago, passed away peacefully with his family by his side.</div>
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He led United to FA Youth Cup victories in 1992 and 1995.</div>
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Harrison was awarded an MBE for services to football in 2017 and Ferguson praised his ability to &quot;make good human beings&quot; out of young players.</div>
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&quot;When I came as manager I was lucky enough to have Eric on the staff as head of youth development, so I got to see the work he did and not just with the Class of 92 but with all the young players.</div>
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&quot;He built character and determination in those young players and prepared them for the future. He was a teacher, he gave these players a path, a choice and he only did that through his own hard work and sacrifice.</div>
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&quot;Our thoughts and prayers go out to Eric&#39;s family and friends at this sad and difficult time,&quot; it added.</div>
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In 1992, his United side won the FA Youth Cup with what is regarded as one of the best crop of young players in the English game.</div>
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Gary Neville, David Beckham and Nicky Butt all went on to have long careers with Manchester United and England. Ryan Giggs and Robbie Savage went on to play for Wales, although Savage did not play a professional game for the Red Devils and moved to Crewe in 1994.</div>
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&quot;I can still hear him telling me &#39;no more Hollywood passes&#39;,&quot; said Beckham.</div>
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&quot;I can still see him as we played on The Cliff training ground looking down on us either with a proud smile or a loud bang of his fist on the window knowing any minute he would be on his way down to probably advise me in the most polite way to stop playing those passes.</div>
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&quot;More importantly he made us understand how to work hard and respect each other and not just on the pitch. We won&#39;t forget the life lessons he gave us. Eric we love you and owe you everything.&quot;</div>
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A year after the Youth Cup success, Neville, Beckham and Savage were joined by Paul Scholes, Phil Neville and Keith Gillespie in the team that lost in the final against Leeds.</div>
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In 1995, a United team captained by Phil Neville and coached by Harrison won the Youth Cup again.</div>
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&quot;He was like a second father,&quot; Phil Neville told BBC Radio 5 live.</div>
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&quot;On and off the pitch, the way you spoke to the canteen ladies, the kit man, the way you dressed, your time-keeping - they were values that stood us in good stead for the rest of our lives.</div>
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&quot;I&#39;m a manager now and the standards that I try and give my players are the standards he taught me and I&#39;ll be forever indebted to him.</div>
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&quot;He was a truly remarkable man and I personally owe him everything.&quot;</div>
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Gary Neville said: &quot;We&#39;ve lost our mentor, our coach and the man who made us.&quot;</div>
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&quot;He taught us how to play, how to never give up, how important it was to win your individual battles and what we needed to do to play for Manchester United Football Club. Eric we owe you everything.&quot;</div>
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Ex-Manchester United, Leicester, Blackburn and Wales midfielder Savage revealed he still has a letter Harrison sent him which encouraged him not to give up when he was released by Manchester United.</div>
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&quot;Eric, along with my family, was the reason I didn&#39;t and to this day I will always be so thankful to Eric,&quot; said Savage.</div>
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In total Harrison spent 27 years at Old Trafford and also spent four years as Wales assistant manager under Hughes.</div>
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Wales&#39; current manager Giggs said: &quot;I&#39;ve known Eric since I was 13 and he was a big part of my career early on. A great man and a tough coach, he instilled in us the principles of the game that we&#39;ve carried for life.</div>
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Manchester UnitedPersonalDavid BeckhamEric HarrisonManchester UnitedPhil NevilleRyan GiggsFri, 15 Feb 2019 14:56:57 +0000Steven Tan2381 at http://www.ryangiggs.ccSane delighted by comparison to 'legend' Giggshttp://www.ryangiggs.cc/news/personal/sane-delighted-comparison-legend-giggs
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<strong>Pep Guardiola has suggested there are similarities between Ryan Giggs and Leroy Sane, delighting the Manchester City winger.</strong></div>
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Leroy Sane is thrilled to be compared to Manchester United &quot;legend&quot; Ryan Giggs but accepts he has work to do before he can be considered in such esteemed company.</div>
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Giggs, now in charge of Wales, is a Premier League icon having won 13 titles, as well as two Champions League crowns during a career-long stay at Old Trafford.</div>
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Manchester City winger Sane is in fine form with eight goals in this season&#39;s Premier League putting him on track to eclipse the 10 he contributed for Pep Guardiola&#39;s side in 2018-19.</div>
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Despite the 23-year-old&#39;s searing pace and bag of tricks, Guardiola has indicated it is too early for Sane to be compared to Giggs and the Germany international agrees with his manager&#39;s assessment.</div>
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&quot;Comparing him to me - I can&#39;t do it at all!&quot; Sane said of Giggs. &quot;If you see the kind of player he was, he&#39;s a legend for Manchester United and the Premier League.&nbsp;</div>
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&quot;How he played was special and how many titles he won, I&#39;m not nearly there! Obviously I&#39;m pleased that people do it because it means I&#39;m doing some things well and I&#39;m really happy about it.&quot;</div>
PersonalLeroy SaneManchester CityRyan GiggsTue, 29 Jan 2019 14:56:57 +0000Steven Tan2382 at http://www.ryangiggs.cc'The best game I ever played in' - Giggs, Neville and Solskjaer relive 1999 FA Cup classichttp://www.ryangiggs.cc/news/manchester-united/best-game-i-ever-played-giggs-neville-and-solskjaer-relive-1999-fa-cup-classi
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&quot;When I got the ball my feeling was that I was having a bit of a nightmare. I had come on for Jesper (Blomqvist) and I kept giving the ball away so I took the decision that the next time I get the ball I was going to have a little dribble so that&#39;s what I did and before you knew it, it was in the back of the net.</div>
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&quot;It was the last FA Cup semi-final replay and I haven&#39;t been in many games where the crowd has come on the pitch. I remember I was actually injured in the game, in the last few minutes Lee Dixon kicked my Achilles, so I was actually getting carried off because I couldn&#39;t walk. It was an amazing scene. And like so many games that year, it was special.</div>
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&quot;It was the best game of football I have ever played in and I think all of us say the same thing</div>
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&quot;That is the standout for me. I was substituted so I watched Giggsy&#39;s goal from the sideline. What a goal that was.</div>
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<strong>EMMANUEL PETIT is a suave Frenchman who oozes class and charm.</strong></div>
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He told SunSport: &quot;As he went through, I was screaming: &lsquo;Kick him, f***ing kick him&#39;. But he was too fast.</div>
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&quot;It was a hot knife through butter. Sometimes you have a football miracle on the pitch, a moment of genius in just a couple of seconds.</div>
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&quot;I have only watched the game back in full twice. But I couldn&#39;t tell you how many times I have watched Giggs&#39; miracle goal.</div>
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&quot;As he started to go, I was just thinking, &lsquo;f***&#39;.</div>
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&quot;I was convinced Martin Keown or Lee Dixon were going to kick him.</div>
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&quot;I remember asking Giggs how he did it when we were pundits at Euro 2016, and how he avoided Keown and Dixon. He replied: &lsquo;I was just too quick. Simple&#39;.&quot;</div>
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&quot;Giggs could do whatever he wanted on the pitch and it just wasn&#39;t to be our day.&quot;</div>
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&quot;Tony Adams and the English back four were the best ambassadors for that because they were fighting like dogs on the pitch, shouting and screaming.</div>
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&quot;After the game we sat in the dressing room in silence, listening to them singing and chanting.</div>
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&quot;In a way I was pleased they went on to win the Treble. With how they did it, scoring late goals against us and then Bayern in the Champions League, it was fate. Fate they earned.&quot;</div>
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It is safe to say Petit is not expecting a similar encounter 20 years on.</div>
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&quot;Manchester United and Arsenal will want a title, but will they be risking everything to get it? I don&#39;t think so.</div>
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&quot;It will be competitive, but will the motivation be the same? I&#39;m not sure.&quot;</div>
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<strong>David Beckham has bought a 10 per cent share in National League promotion chasers Salford City, making the Class of 92 majority shareholders in the club.</strong></div>
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Beckham joins former Old Trafford team-mates Gary and Phil Neville, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes as part-owners of the club, who are in the running for promotion to League Two.</div>
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PersonalClass of '92David BeckhamGary NevilleNicky ButtPaul ScholesPhil NevilleRyan GiggsSalford City FCWed, 23 Jan 2019 15:56:57 +0000Steven Tan2377 at http://www.ryangiggs.ccAaron Ramsey leaving Arsenal 'comfort zone' for Juventus - Ryan Giggshttp://www.ryangiggs.cc/news/personal/aaron-ramsey-leaving-arsenal-comfort-zone-juventus-ryan-giggs
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<strong>Ryan Giggs has told ESPN FC that Aaron Ramsey&#39;s proposed move to Juventus from Arsenal will take the midfielder of his &quot;comfort zone&quot; and make him a better player.</strong></div>
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Sources have told ESPN FC that Ramsey, 28, will complete a free transfer move to Italian champions Juventus at the end of this season following Arsenal&#39;s decision to withdraw a contract offer to the Welshman last September.</div>
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Wales manager Giggs admitted he has been surprised by Arsenal&#39;s failure to re-open negotiations over a new deal for Ramsey, but the former Manchester United winger believes that moving to Juventus will benefit the player and the international team.</div>
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&quot;I think the main thing for me, as a national team coach, is that your players are playing, but you&#39;ve seen the great experience that Gareth [Bale] has had going abroad and what he&#39;s won,&quot; Giggs told ESPN FC.</div>
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Neville and Giggs were joined by Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt to look back at their all-time best line-up, with no Manchester United player allowed to be included to, by the letter of the law, avoid &quot;any potential bias&quot;.</div>
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But the first pick of the line-up briefly proved a tricky one, until once Gary Neville put forward his choice and a consensus was quickly reached. &quot;I would put forward Seaman or Thibaut Courtois,&quot; said Gary Neville. &quot;I love Petr Cech as well but Courtois is better - although I&#39;d still say Seaman!&quot;</div>
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Phil Neville and Nicky Butt went for the now West Ham defender while Gary Neville and Giggs chose their old Arsenal adversary, leaving Paul Scholes to cast the deciding vote... &quot;Picking a City player, what&#39;s wrong with you?&quot; said Giggs with a wry smile.</div>
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But he wasn&#39;t the class of 92&#39;s first suggestion. &quot;Me at right-back! I&#39;m in, aren&#39;t I,&quot; said Gary Neville. &quot;Put Gerrard right-back and Roy (Keane) in midfield.</div>
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<strong>THE Football Association of Wales has announced that Ryan Giggs&#39; team will host Belarus in a friendly on September 10.</strong></div>
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The FAW says the location of the match and ticket details will be confirmed in due course.</div>
WalesBelarusRyan GiggsWalesMon, 21 Jan 2019 14:56:57 +0000Steven Tan2374 at http://www.ryangiggs.ccPep Guardiola plays down Leroy Sane-Ryan Giggs comparisonshttp://www.ryangiggs.cc/news/personal/pep-guardiola-plays-down-leroy-sane-ryan-giggs-comparisons
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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says it is too early to start comparing Leroy Sane with Ryan Giggs.</div>
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The 23-year-old was named PFA Young Player of the Year last season as City won the Premier League and Carabao Cup, but Guardiola says comparisons with United legend Giggs are premature.</div>
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&quot;I think he&#39;s becoming much more consistent but still he&#39;s not Ryan Giggs,&quot; Guardiola told The Telegraph.</div>
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&quot;I don&#39;t remember if Ryan Giggs was like Leroy when he was 21, 22 years old. I don&#39;t know. That would be the comparison, you know?</div>
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&quot;I remember when Ryan Giggs played in the Champions League finals against us [in 2009 and 2011 when Guardiola was Barcelona boss]. That was after many seasons of games in the Premier League. But in the early stages, maybe it was quite similar.</div>
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&quot;I judge Leroy against the real Ryan Giggs from the later stages. And of course still, he&#39;s not like him.&quot;</div>
PersonalLeroy SaneManchester CityPep GuardiolaRyan GiggsSun, 20 Jan 2019 14:56:57 +0000Steven Tan2373 at http://www.ryangiggs.cc